[gobolinux-devel] Fwd: [gobolinux-users] error in installing of thttpd

[Isaac Dupree]

Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:19:34 +0100, Hisham <hisham.hm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The error in the forwarded message below got me thinking about
>> Resources/Requirements. Lucas's patch currently adds users/groups as
>> the very last thing in the compile/install process. I don't know if
>> the specific error below qualifies (I think it doesn't), but isn't it
>> possible that other apps may need users/groups created _before_ the
>> compilation and/or post-install runs?
>>
> yes, I think this is valid. Compile should run it before compilation,
> maybe just after CheckDependencies (the users are after all
> "dependencies"). InstallPackage should run it before PostInstall, as
> users/groups might be needed by then.

in the context of ChrootCompile, or pre-built packages installed by 
InstallPackage, the user/groups might get a different number on the 
system than they were compiled with.  Is this a problem?  I imagine it 
affects the .tar files at least (or do/can they store users/groups by 
name not number somehow?), if not other parts of the compiled program 
(or would that be considered a bug, one that other distros might have 
trouble with too?)

~Isaac